Michele Visciola

President

Michele Visciola is an international expert on usability engineering, human factors and user-centred design, with a specific interest in new interfaces, notification systems, scenario design and the usability-aesthetics relationship.

He participated in many national and international information system design projects, covering a wide range of expertise (from aeronautics to naval systems, and from internet to mobility systems).

He taught Digital Culture for Designers at the Industrial Design Department of the Milan Polytechnic, and is the author and co-author of books and many papers. He is currently lectures on “Usability Methods” at the Bicocca University of Milan.

He is the president of the Italian chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Association’s User Experience magazine. He is also responsible for editing the scenario analysis part of the Book of Vision of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF).

Visciola graduated in Cognitive Science and Human–Computer Interaction and Ergonomics at Rome University, Italy. He obtained a Ph.D. in Ergonomics of Man-Machine Systems at CNR, Italy’s National Research Centre, and an M.Sc. in Business Administration at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Boston, MA, USA.